by Steve Spillman | Jul 21, 2017 | blog, Books, Marketing |
Sherrie knows how to sell books Sherrie Rice Smith is a retired nurse (RN). She has more than four decades in nursing, which includes work in medical-surgical, home health, and hospice care. Sherrie is also an authority in the field of “Emotional Freedom Techniques.”...
by Steve Spillman | Jun 22, 2017 | blog, self-publishing |
Self-Publishing is up. Book sales are down. Hmmm…. The number of self-published books entering the market each year has exploded. According to Bowker (the company responsible for issuing ISBN’s – a book’s identification number) more than 725,000 self-published...
by Steve Spillman | Jun 8, 2017 | blog, Books |
A local newspaper featured new novelist Sigrid Fowler after she signed a publishing agreement with True Potential in May. Her first of two novels in a series, Don’t Tell the Rabbi, Book 1: Three Men and an Old Lady is due to launch later this summer. Fowler, a...
by Steve Spillman | May 23, 2017 | blog, Books, Goals |
Twenty-two years ago, on their way to a church Christmas program most of the Jirovec family were involved in a horrific automobile accident. Some of the family members escaped with minor injuries; some did not. One of the Jirovec boys, Jonathan, was killed. The twists...
by Steve Spillman | May 11, 2017 | blog, Writing |
“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” Wayne Gretzky I think about the future of books … a lot. I study where we are now, where trends seem to be going, where technology is taking us and...
by Steve Spillman | May 8, 2017 | blog, Books |
WARNING! THIS POST IS MEANT FOR MATURE ADULTS. IF YOU WERE BORN AFTER MAY 8, 1970 READING FURTHER MAY RESULT IN THE DISCOVERY OF EXTREMELY COOL MUSIC AND A GREATER APPRECIATION FOR YOUR PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS AND OLDSTERS IN GENERAL. CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Remember...
by Steve Spillman | May 2, 2017 | blog, Goals, Writing |
Prolific author and International speaker Dr. Myles Monroe speaks to authors. He opened with two questions: “Why should you write?” “Why should anyone want to read what you write?” Then he warned his audience: “If you don’t have answers to those...
by Steve Spillman | Apr 13, 2017 | blog, self-publishing |
You can publish your book for free. It’s true! Just go to CreateSpace (now Amazon kdp), It’s owned by Amazon. Upload your manuscript, upload or create your book cover right on their website. Go through their process of quality checks, fill in a lot of blanks (ISBN,...
by Steve Spillman | Mar 28, 2017 | blog, Books, Marketing |
I used to travel more than I do now. I’ve spent a lot of nights, more than I wanted to, in hotels. When you spend the night in hotels regularly you develop favorites. The “frequent stayer” reward programs do their best to garner loyalty to their brand. But I preferred...
